I was driving around at noon, running errands, when I calculated that this is how many hours we see Ava each weekday. It’s just not enough. I try to convince myself that all Ava would be doing, were we together all day, would be watching Ruby and Max or coloring by herself at her table, but that’s a cop out, of course. I think about all the stuff we’d have to give up to have one of us stay home all day with Ava, and it’d be Leah and I taking the real hit, not Ava. She’s still fairly unaware of all the trappings of our lives.<\/p>\n
This is how kids grow up so fast, when we only see them for 20 hours out of a week that has 80 waking hours. That’s 25%. It explains why I’m sometimes surprised by some new development or another in Ava’s life when we pick her up from preschool.<\/p>\n
To be fair, my dad was home with my brother and me when we were kids, which Leah would be the first to point out was not necessarily a fruitful developmental period in my life. But they were good days. We had Big Wheels(TM), our bikes, and dirt to play in; if life did indeed offer more, what was the use in it? I do wish I could give Ava that life. More of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was driving around at noon, running errands, when I calculated that this is how many hours we see Ava each weekday. It’s just not enough. I try to convince myself that all Ava would be doing, were we together all day, would be watching Ruby and Max or coloring by herself at her table, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-sV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}